Rank #268
Hong Ra-hee
Net worth $11.9B
Samsung · South Korea
- Born
- Jul 15, 1945
- Age
- 80
- Source
- Samsung
- Residence
- Seoul
- Citizenship
- South Korea
- Marital status
- Widowed
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Seoul National University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Hong Ra-hee is the widow of Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee, who had long been South Korea's richest person before his death in 2020.
- She was the director of the Samsung Museum of Art, known as Leeum, and the Ho-Am Art Museum before her resignation in 2017.
- Hong is an arts graduate of Seoul National University, and both museums contain collections from her father-in-law, Samsung founder Lee Byung-Chull.
- Her father was chairman of one of Korea's largest daily newspapers, JoongAng Ilbo, which is now run by her nephew.
- One of her brothers, Hong Seok-joh, is the chairman of Korea's biggest convenience-store chain.
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